Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Prayer

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]

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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker